Photography Quotes · Page 29

“Vision is that original spark that was ignited within you and made you pick up a camera to capture whatever it is…

— David duChemin

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

— August Sander

Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and,…

— Edward Ruscha

Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)

— Mel Bochner

The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself.....

— Freeman Patterson

One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act.

— Angie Everhart

You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do…

— Chuck Close

“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic”

— Susan Wiggs

Whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s like-you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid.

— Johnny Depp

By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of…

— Neil Postman

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

— Charles Baudelaire

I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example;…

— John Sexton

If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing

— Mary-Kate Olsen

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

— Elliott Erwitt

“(...) photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. (...) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting…

— Chip Kidd

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

— Edward Weston

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

— Pablo Picasso

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting…

— Anne Frank

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

— Charles M. Schulz

I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you…

— Wayne White

The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy…

— Peter Gabriel

Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest…

— Joshua Marston

I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was…

— Emmet Gowin

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

— Garry Winogrand